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| | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. | Srujan Rokkam | Engineering Manager |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Advanced Cooling Technologies is a premier thermal management design and manufacturing company that develops innovative thermal technologies and provides technology based thermal products to customers in energy systems, electronics, aerospace, military, and government sectors. ACT specializes in advanced thermal technology development and custom thermal product design and fabrication. Thermal energy storage for various temperature ranges, two-phase flow heat transfer, heat pipes, and advanced thermal systems are particular areas of expertise. ACT’s business areas includes the sale of thermal products/systems (e.g., thermal energy storage systems, heat pipes, energy recovery units for HVAC, cold plates, and thermal management components) and R&D activities to develop new research ideas and transition them to products (mostly funded by federal research programs). Since the company founding in 2003, ACT has made significant investments in our manufacturing facility, and has had product sales from commercializing SBIR technologies of more than $130 million. ACT has a commercialization index of 95% (per sbir.gov). ACT’s commercialization success is aided by its active patenting of intellectual property. ACT has 32 patents awarded for various thermal management technologies with 5 more pending at the current stage. ACT has 20 years of experience in the design and manufacturing of thermal systems and heat pipes for a variety of applications.
For ACT R&D webpage visit, https://www.1-act.com/engineering-services/research-development/
The resources section and papers also give a good glimpse of ACT's R&D activities. |
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| | BDO USA | Dan Durst | Managing Director |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| BDO Knows Grants Management. In the ever-evolving grants landscape, BDO emerges as a guiding force, offering a seamless journey through the complete lifecycle of grants management. BDO partners with organizations seeking the following capabilities:
Capability 1: Crafting Visions - Pre-Award Support
Embarking on the grants journey, our clients find solace in BDO's adeptness at transforming abstract ideas into compelling narratives. With meticulous attention to detail, we assist in articulating project concepts, ensuring they resonate with grantors. BDO supports organizations with the development of compelling concept papers and convincing full applications. A team of budgeting and indirect cost rate negotiation experts complements our grant writing expertise.
Capability 2: Sustaining Triumphs - Post Award Administration
The grant journey does not end with the notice of award; it transforms into a partnership sustained by compliance and reporting. BDO's commitment to ensuring adherence to grant terms and conditions is unwavering. Our experts seamlessly support the accounting, procurement, property management, and cyber related responsibilities of the largest grant recipients.
Capability 3: Bridging Horizons - Technology Integration
In an era dominated by technology, BDO does not merely adapt; it leads. Our grants management experts are enabled with innovative technology, bringing forth a wave of efficiency to our clients. From accounting to subaward administration, our experts identify the right solutions for each clients’ unique needs.
Capability 4: Echoes of Success - Impact Reporting
The soul of BDO's journey lies in the success stories etched in collaboration with our clients and their programs. Through quantitative metrics and qualitative milestones, BDO designs compliant and insightful reporting frameworks to address awarding agency demands. |
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| | Anglo American | Ishaq Ahmad | Principal, Decarbonisation Ventures |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Decarbonisation Ventures is the corporate venture capital and partnership team of Anglo American.
Anglo American is a leading global mining company whose products (including iron ore) are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Recognising the critical challenge of climate change, Anglo American is delivering a Sustainable Mining Plan that targets a 50% reduction in its Scope 3 emissions by 2040. With a significant proportion of Anglo American’s Scope 3 emissions deriving from the downstream use of iron ore in steelmaking this challenge is one of a range of initiatives the company has started to accelerate the decarbonisation of the steel sector.
The Decarbonisation Ventures team aims to support climate positive innovations through investment and industry collaborations, and is actively looking to support solutions that are innovative, could become cost competitive and will be impactful in decarbonising steel production.
Partner teams we select to work with will have access to a range of internal technical and commercial experts to support them in their scale-up journey. The nature of advice will depend on what the technologies or companies require to meet commercialisation milestones. Beyond its internal expertise Anglo American can also draw on the strength of its global partner and customer network to support ventures’ product development. Our existing work on steel decarbonisation with several global steel producers is a particular avenue that successful applicants may be able to leverage. In addition, all teams can be assessed for potential venture capital investment.
Anglo American has been involved in venturing for about a decade, including founding AP Ventures, co-founding start-ups such as Mission Zero Technologies and Supercritical, and helping grow other cleantech businesses such as First Mode. We know what it takes to be creative and innovative, and how to partner to raise capital. |
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| | University of Nevada, Reno | Ehsan Vahidi | Assistant Professor & Butler Endowed Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dr. Vahidi holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His lab specializes in the fascinating amalgamation of mining, metallurgical engineering, and sustainability sciences. He has established collaborations with various mining companies, actively engaging in projects concerning the environmental and social consequences of mining in both Nevada and California.
Of particular significance is Dr. Vahidi's expertise in life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA). These skills will be invaluable in developing realistic models to evaluate the processes. |
| NV |
| | IND LLC | Ramaswami Neelameggham | Chef Technologist |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Electrochemical Technologist with vast expertise in Plant equipment, flowsheet design, operation optimization, Equipment design with productivity, energy efficiency, near zero emissions as fundamentals. Interested in being a Teaming partner-co-investigator for Projects such as ROSIE
Recent expertise includes Thermoeconomic dynamics of energy efficient Orange Hydrogen, Projec Ayroppa - Hydrogen enriched maroon gas and Pink Hydrogen for Energy independence in EU, Energy recycle based hydrogen production - including H2 fueling stations, Metal-oxide electrowinning technologies, AGRICOAL technology. 4C method to achieve Netzero sooner. IND LLC team has a pool of scientists, engineers, and technologists in providing turn-key process and equipment. |
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| | Columbia University | Alan West | Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| We are electrochemists, who have developed (through Arpa-E funding) hydrometallurgical means of producing Cu, from iron-containing minerals (chalcopyrite, for example). We are extending to other non-ferrous metals. For Cu, the primary mineral contains Fe, which is a byproduct of our process. At scale, we will produce on the order of 1000 tonnes/day of ferrous ions in an acidic sulfate electrolyte. Currently, it is a waste product , and electrowinning is one means of disposal that we are exploring. We would be happy to support a project that might view our feedstock as a demonstration of their innovations. Given the nature of the feedstock (waste from Cu processing), there is an excellent chance of being net zero, depending on the LCA boundaries. Our envisioned contributions would be 1) to develop separations that might be required to achieve electrowinning, given the unique characteristics of our electrolyte, and 2) work towards integration with our work. |
| NY |
| | Oherlab | Peter Lynn | Disruptive Technology Engineer |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Otherlab is a thought leading early stage R&D lab in San Francisco dedicated to the engineering solutions around climate change mitigation. This includes renewable energy generation, the electrification of energy use, and carbon removal. Otherlab has a broad range of expertise and prototyping capabilities. More specific areas of interest, within the context of this potential FOA, include engineering design, automation, the control of plasmas, the separation of metals, vertical integration with manufacturing, optimization around renewable energy use, supply chains and logistics, water purification, co-benefits, and so forth. We are specifically interested in partners who might have expertise in intensive electrified molten oxide reduction that might be compatible with highly distributed and low-capital cost operations. |
| CA |
| | Hydrobe Pty Ltd | Duncan Anderson | Chair |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Hydrobe technology converts flue gas stream with CO2 into green energy products (fertilizer, hydrogen, alcohols). The core technology extracts sugars from algal biomass using bacterial reactors to produce hydrogen and other products without requiring heat or pressure. The result is an energy light, scalable biological process that efficiently releases sugars from biomass for conversion to green energy products.
The system generates in excess of 117 Kg of hydrogen for every 1 tonne of biomass. Post processing, the residual biomass is rich in carbon and cellulose free. Therefore, it may be viable as a metallurgical coal substitute.
The core discovery enabled a material change to photobioreactor design. The combination of green hydrogen, as a carbon offset or energy source, and the scale of biomass demand it generated resulted in carbon fixation productivity rates in excess of 8g/l/d requiring a fraction of the footprint of any other known algal production solution.
By recycling CO2 into new energy products, the system not only fixes carbon from a flue gas stream, it eliminates carbon that would otherwise have been generated in the production of those new energy products. The integrated system is a decarbonization solution designed to generate a return on investment.
We are at TRL 5. The science is proven. Until this point, all work has been done at lab scale. The process of building a larger scale integrated system for demonstration has commenced.
We are seeking steel industry customers interested to work with us on the path to commercial deployment of the technology.
Hydrobe Pty Ltd is an Australian company. However, our core markets will be with industrial emitters in the USA, East Asia, and Western Europe. Our primary operations base will likely be in the USA. |
| Western Australia |
| | Phinix,LLC | Dr. Subodh Das | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Develop and commercialize existing and new processes and products in the metals and recycling industries |
Website: www.phinix.net
Email: skdas@phinix.net
Phone: 18596198386
Address: 7730 Carondelet Avenue , Suite #310, Clayton, MO, 63105-332, United States
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| | QuesTek Innovations LLC | Amit Behera | Manager of Design Group |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| QuesTek Innovations is both a pioneer and current market leader in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). QuesTek’s Materials by Design® technologies are proven to reduce the development time and cost, and increase the performance of novel materials. In its market space, QuesTek is the only provider to execute the full cycle from novel design to production, certification, and flight operations with proprietary materials, in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional or purely algorithmic methods.
We have prior experience on addressing critical material challenges with molten oxide electrolysis of mixed ore, developing better energy storage materials and predicting performance of critical materials under industrial conditions. Our capabilities include computational resources, basic experimental prototyping and testing facilities. |
| IL |
| | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Luca Mastropasqua | Dr. |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dr. Mastropasqua directs the Hydrogen and Electrochemical Research for Decarbonization (HERD) Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison. Our research focuses on electrochemical energy conversion devices and systems for decarbonized and zero emission power generation, energy storage, and industrial manufacturing applications. We characterize and explore the fundamental physical and chemical processes of electrochemistry and thermodynamics to discover new concepts, advance new devices, conceptualize novel process integration, and scale-up systems to final applications. We have experience in applying electrochemical processes to produce reducing streams for ironmaking decarbonization, as well as for carbon capture and storage.
We primarily study solid state, molten carbonates, and composite electrolyte membranes (i.e., oxygen anion, protonic, and carbonate ion conductors), perovskite porous electrodes and composite ceramic/metal structures for electrochemical reactions. We investigate materials degradation phenomena and design diagnostic protocols to identify testing regimes that allow for a more reliable operation of devices and systems. Through collaborations, we develop manufacturing processes to scale-up new devices and reach commercially relevant sizes. High temperature electrochemical integration allows for synergistic coupling of industrial manufacturing activities, use of waste heat, and production of synthetic fuels and industrial products. Therefore, we perform thermodynamic and electrochemical modelling of such systems to design and optimize process integration.
We aim at being involved in direct electrochemical reduction of iron ore to metallic iron and demonstrating durability of electrodes in protonic and/or mixed conductor cells. |
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| | Dept. of Materials Design & Innovation- Univ at Buffalo | KRISHNA RAJAN | SUNY Distinguished Professor & Erich Bloch Chair |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| - Materials Informatics
- AI for multiscale materials modeling
- Atom probe tomography and in-operando microscopy of gas-solid reactions
- Data driven modeling and analysis for spectroscopy
- Alloy / ceramics design and microstructure |
Website: www.mdi.buffalo.edu
Email: krajan3@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-1380
Address: Dept. of Materials Design and Innovation -120 Bonner Hall, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
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| | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Yan Wang | William Smith Foundation Dean's Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| I have been working on the iron oxide reduction for a number of years and invented low temperature electrolysis. I have background on iron oxide reduction, electrochemistry, battery and sustainability. Here are our publications related to iron oxide reduction.
Muntasir Shahabuddin, Adam Clayton Powell, Yan Wang, Preliminary Economic Analysis of Red Mud Valorization via Colloidal Aqueous Electrolytic Reduction in a Modern Electricity Infrastructure, (2022), Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, DOI:10.1007/s40831-022-00537-5
Qiang Wang, Mingchao Shang, Yong Zhang, Yuan Yang, Yan Wang*, Rate-Limiting Step in the Batteries with Metal Oxides as the Energy Material, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10 (8), (2018) 7162–7170.
Qiang Wang, Bobin Fu, Yan Wang*, Iron Shell Formation by Electrolyzing Self-Assembled Nano-Particles, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 64(13) (2017) E428-E433.
Qiang Wang, Bobin Fu, Yan Wang*, The Factors Determining Charge Rate of Magnetite Electrode and the Function Mechanism of Sulfide on the Magnetite Reduction Reaction, Electrochimica Acta, 258 (2017) 143-152.
Qiang Wang, Yan Wang*, Overcome the Limiting Step of Fe2O3 Reduction via in-situ Sulfide Modification, ACS Applied Materials& Interfaces, 8(16) (2016) 10334-10342.
Qiang Wang, Yi Zhu, Qiuyang Wu, Eric Gratz, Yan Wang*, Low-Temperature Electrolysis for Iron Production via Conductive Colloidal Electrode, RSC Advances, 5 (2015) 5501-5507 |
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